The Impact of Capital Structure on Profitability at Syrian Private Banks

The formation of optimal capital structure is considered as one of the most difficult challenges that face management at banks, by exploring the capital structure at Syrian private banks, the researcher noticed that Syrian private banks depend on short term debt financing, however, the researcher sees that this kind of debt will have a weak impact on the profitability of Syrian private banks for not having long term debt financing. Thus this study discussed the impact of capital structure on profitability at Syrian Private Banks, it answered questions where if there were a significant impact of retention ratio, debt ratio, and leverage ratio on profitability measured by return on assets, return on equity, and net investment margin.

Proposed Model for Relationship between Banking Organization Characteristics and Voluntary Disclosure of Social Responsibility An Empirical Study on Private Banks Listed in Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities

This research work aimed at whether or not a model express on the relationship between banking organization characteristics and voluntary disclosure of social responsibility in the annual report. To achieve this aim, the researchers developed an index against which voluntary disclosure of social responsibility may be measured, in the field of study represented by eleven private Syrian banks.

The effect of Liquidity on Islamic Banks Profitability (Empirical Study on Syrian Islamic Banks)

This study aims to clarify the concept of profitability and liquidity at the Islamic Banks, and discuss how the liquidity affects the Islamic banks profitability. In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher, after presenting the theoretical framework for the study, conducts a case study of the Islamic banks working in Syria (Albaraka- Syria Bank, Cham Bank, Syria International Islamic Bank), and conducts an appropriate statistical test to show the relationship between the liquidity and profitability (measured by ROA) of those Islamic banks. The researcher depends on the financial statements in the reports published by Islamic banks, using the statistical program SPSS 18 to get the results of this test. This study concluded that: there is no a significant relationship between Islamic banks liquidity and profitability, although they have high liquidity ratios, and low return on assets in general.

Interest Rate and its Impact on the Profitability of Commercial Banks (the Bank of Syria and Overseas Case Study)

The interest issue was for long time ago and still one of the critical issues debated among economists through it monetary policy tools can be implemented in order to reach the economic goals set by the economic policy of any country, With the appearance of the banks, which have been considered as the backbone of the economy and the basic cell of the national economy growth and its engine as they keep, move, develop, and facilitate the exchange of money the interest rate has become as a nervous system for commercial banks because of its significant impact on the revenues and expenses of these banks through the interest rates debtors and creditors imposed on their activities,Therefore, the main aim of this research is to study the impact of the net interest margin on the profitability of commercial bank by conducting an empirical study in The Bank of Syria and Overseas (BSO), the commercial bank has been chosen because the interests debtors and creditors constitute the largest proportion of revenues and expenses of commercial banks by displaying the size of revenues and expenses of the bank and their vulnerability to interest rates imposed by the central bank this study found that the profitability of commercial banks consists mainly of the net interest margin which reflects the difference between the creditor interests levied for the facilities granted and the debtors interests paid on deposits.